Fans of top-tier tsundere Senjougahara Hitagi or much-loved Sengoku Nadeko may be disappointed, as the story takes place before their encounters with protagonist Araragi Koyomi, likely preventing a more than passing appearance, if any.

With animation studio Shaft’s history with releasing episodes finished and on-time, expectations of numerous delays may be justified – in any case Shaft has yet to mock fans with further release details.

I just finish Bakemonogatari (wrote about it on my blog) [http://vzartanime.blogspot.com/2010/09/bakamonogatari-better-than-i-expected.html,]http://vzartanime.blogspot.com/2010/09/bakamonogatari-better-than-i-expected.html, so I'm anticipating this prequel.

i think it's better that they did the stream instead of compacting the various arcs to fit the 12 week block that they bought...
let's just hope that if they do decide to do it again they follow their schedule properly ... instead of the delay spam they previosly did